Don’t try to gaslight me, I was deacons/teachers quorum president, priests first assistant, an eagle scout, more baptisms for the dead than I could shake a stick at, ordained aaronic/melchezdik priesthood, all the men in my family RMs, and most on the bishopric at some point or another.
That’s some serious cognitive dissonance if you believe believe “Mormon” ever was or is an epithet. Do you think Monson was controlled by the devil to launch and sustain the “I’m a Mormon” the campaign? No? Then do you think he wasn’t guided by the Lord to start the campaign, even though it was doomed to fail? How about Hinckley saying Mormon should mean “more good” all the way back in the '90s, putting Nelson back in his place, was the prophet being deceived by Satan then? Was Hinckley not being guided by the Lord?
Something’s not adding up, and to get past it requires a ton of mental gymnastics, like the kind you’re applying.